This is a major release, and deprecated APIs have been removed. Some 3rd party plugins might require updates before they are compatible. This release adds first-class support for pluggable webviews - namely we now support WKWebView -- a bundled modern WebView for iOS!

The platform now supports Asset Catalogs for splashscreens and icons -- this is all transparent to you when using the <splash> and <icon> tags in config.xml.

ios-sim is bundled with the platform now, you will not need to install this separately anymore. However for ios-deploy you will need to update your version to the latest.

The minimum deployment target has been updated to iOS 8.0. This means that this platform release has only been tested on iOS 8 devices and greater only and will only support those iOS versions.

cordova-ios@4.0.0 will be the default iOS version in the next version of cordova. If you just can't wait though, you can try it out now:

We are in the process of releasing the cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine plugin to npm. If you decide to update to cordova-ios@4.0.0 before we release this plugin, please install the plugin via git for now.

Note that the cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine plugin has some limitations versus the default UIWebView, please consult the README for more details.

In addition to the <access> tag, there is support for the new <allow-intent> and <allow-navigation> tags, documented here. Note that you do not need cordova-plugin-whitelist installed for cordova-ios-4.0.0.